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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Cloudflare is fantastic at marketing, and pretty good at technology. I evaluated them twice for enterprise contracts and both times picked a competitor. The first time, it was DosArrest for DDOS protection, which was a much better value per
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
That’s very interesting, but the analogy is not wrong, because the mattress is analogous to space-time , not just space. Essentially it is a 2D analogy for a 3+1D reality.
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
I don’t understand how lines of code matter at all for scary LLM core capabilities. Does the transformer architecture get better with more lines of code? My impression was that LLM training codebases were 99% resource management and only a
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
If they actually have concerns they can communicate them directly and privately. There are less than 10 companies, in only 2 countries, with advanced enough AI programs to qualify for this type of concern. And Anthropic has the phone number
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Sure but some people own like 30 guns. There’s more going on with gun ownership than just basic self defense.
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
It’s a great episode of TV because Data is a main cast character who is obviously conscious. We know before the episode starts who is right and who is wrong in this particular argument. This episode is not about consciousness, it is about c
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Apple has never been a luxury brand. It’s a label lobbed at them by critics and fans of competing products. But it’s never been supported by their price points, volumes, marketing, or operations. The few times they have tried to play in the
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Access billions in federal funding, obviously. Which is something!
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
It may also be salient post-2028, is the thing.
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Sure but that goes both ways in a conversation.
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
Over the past year to 1.5 years, in the sites I run, I have seen a drop in traffic from Google, which leveled off, and is now slightly rising. I think if you look through this thread you’ll see a lot of skepticism of the AI results, and I t
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
I think what is needed, and what will happen, is to pull apart concepts like intelligence, consciousness, and language use, and create narrower and more rigorous definitions of what those are. My go-to analogy is the concept of heat and war
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
No, expertise is more important when working with AI, because it can make mistakes. Expertise is the ability to predict, understand, and mitigate such mistakes. In science for example, anyone can do an experiment about gravity. In fact mi
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by snowwrestler 5mo ago
There seems to be an additional factor lately, especially for email going to Microsoft, which is how long these DNS lookups take. We configured a new email sending service and kept the DNS TTLs low on the TXT records for SPF, DKIM, and DMAR
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
The public policy purpose is to allow independent verification of who voted, in furtherance of trust in elections. It is arguably one of the reasons voter fraud is extremely rare in U.S. elections. “Many eyes make bugs shallow,” to steal a
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
The 2nd level of Banksy’s pranks is how angry they make self-appointed arbiters of what is counter-culture or cringe.
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
Natural selection is universal and undirected, so it is meaningless to wonder “why” it was “content to evolve” anything. This sort of determinism has been a problem for Dawkins going back to the late chapters of The Selfish Gene .
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
I've heard this idea before but I think it's primarily hindsight. At the time The X Files was on, there were even more popular shows about strong institutions, like Law & Order or The West Wing . So if popular TV was infl
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
But if the org already has an agreement with Anthropic (and many do) then why pay GitHub…
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
There’s been plenty of philosophy, but what will probably happen is a re-definition of the terms to a more rigorous and repeatable mathematical formulation. This will fail to satisfy philosophical or fundamental questions, but will enable b
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
I think you’re right about this deal. But it’s kind of funny to think back and realize that Microsoft actually has just written off multi-billion-dollar deals, several times in fact.
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
These athletes are eating nutritionally complete diets overall. The simple carb intake is a strategy just for the run itself. That said, pretty much everything about highest-end athletics is net negative for long-term health. It’s incredibl
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
Is that not what Wikimedia is for?
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
The idea is that people will lie lie lie since words are free, but make real decisions when it’s their money at stake. It’s not that different from the general concept of pricing. People will swear they want to buy American, support small b
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
And yet this sort of endless (fingerprintable) browser feature list is what people cite when they claim that mobile Safari is somehow way behind Chrome, and how it’s a travesty that Chrome can’t natively implement all these (again, highly
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
“Planetary defense” is a fig leaf covering the development of technologies to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles above the atmosphere. The belief is that the first country to have this reliably at scale breaks the “mutually assured de
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
A lithium ion headlamp plus power bank does the same thing for the same weight and more flexibility. You can also charge phone, InReach, cameras. You can decide what is most important use of power. That’s the standard these days. Another ap
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
That’s how Vanguard keeps their costs so low, they just set a full page cache with 86,400 TTL and only a few people notice.
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
People do forget what it was like. Device battery life was way shorter and the manufacturer was incentivized to keep it that way because it sold more batteries. Devices all had proprietary batteries. If I had 3 devices on me, I was carrying
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by snowwrestler 6mo ago
Tim Cook refreshing his 401k page every day to see if he’s ready to FIRE.

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